Almost every Youtube video showing Nikki playing live has a joker in the comments saying that Nikki doesn't actually play bass. The worst say he's a fraud and never played and that studio musicians performed the bass duties on the Crue records. All those anecdotes from producer Tom Werman and even Nikki himself criticizing his abilities have convinced the more gullible Rock fans that some kind of deceit is at hand. Footage of Nikki playing "Primal Scream" live has confused some of the non-musicians in the crowd. The intro bass notes are "A" to "G". There are many ways to play this chord, one of which is to just pick the open "A" string. No fretting required. Nikki will do this and pump his free left hand to the beat and fans think it shows him playing to tapes! Make no mistake: Motley play to tapes. Back-up vocals and even rhythm guitar at times maybe? but Nikki's bass is usually unabashedly live, warts n' all.
I made this compilation video earlier in the year and was surprised to see it reaching over 400,000 views in a short time [I recently noticed that almost half of the video's watch count has been erased by Youtube! Perhaps fake accounts or bot activity was deleted? Bummer].
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